Kinder Morgan files last minute objection to Joint Review’s proposed conditions for Northern Gateway
Robin Rowland, Northwest Coast Energy News, June 5 2013
Kinder Morgan has filed a last minute objection to the Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel’s preliminary conditions for the Enbridge project.
BC Gov't to Enbridge: 'Trust Me' Is Not Good Enough
Andrew MacLeod, TheTyee.ca, 31 May 2013
Activists, First Nations leaders cheer province's clear stand against Northern Gateway proposal.
B.C. says ‘No’ to Northern Gateway on concerns over oil spills
Jeffrey Jones, Globe and Mail, May 31 2013
CALGARY — British Columbia has formally rejected Enbridge Inc.’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline to the West Coast from Alberta, saying the company has failed to adequately explain how to deal with a major heavy oil spill on land or in coastal waters.
News Bitumen Doesn't Float
Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee, May 23 2013
Study debunks Enbridge claims that oil sands crude spill is standard clean-up.
Pipeline dreams turn to ashes for Big Oil
Rick Smith, The Star, May 17 2013
The arrogance of oil companies and the Harper government turned a previously obscure environmental issue into a much more potent concern regarding the erosion of democracy and fairness
Enbridge pipeline opponents say hearings unfair
Mark Hume, Globe and Mail, Apr. 03 2013
VANCOUVER — Federal hearings into the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project are unfair because company witnesses are allowed to huddle before answering questions during cross-examination, says a lawyer for two conservation groups.
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Government critics beginning to smell a rat over Kitimat oil refinery proposal |
Government critics beginning to smell a rat over Kitimat oil refinery proposal |
Government critics beginning to smell a rat over Kitimat oil refinery proposal
Michael Smyth, The Province, March 22, 2013
Note: Within hours of this article appearing on the Province's website, it was "disappeared" without explanation. This version was obtained from the Google cache.
While B.C. newspaper publisher David Black pursues his audacious dream of a massive oil refinery on the province’s North Coast, a pre-election political scrap has flared up around the plan.
Envoy to deal with First Nations concerns on pipelines
The Canadian Press, CBC News, Mar 19, 2013
Vancouver lawyer Doug Eyford to submit preliminary report to Harper by June
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has named an envoy to deal with aboriginal opposition to resource development in Alberta and British Columbia.
BC pipeline investments appear doomed
Western Investor, 16 February 2013
It now appears increasingly unlikely that neither the $6 billion Enbridge Inc. Northern Gateway pipeline or the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Inc.'s Trans Mountain oil pipeline will be approved in British Columbia.
Ottawa could force B.C. to accept Gateway pipeline
By Barbara Yaffe, Vancouver Sun, February 7, 2013
But Alberta reluctant to ask for intervention, fearing it could backfire
Alberta desperately wants a pipeline built across a reluctant B.C., but not badly enough to court Ottawa's constitutional intervention.
Chiefs declare ban on pipelines, tankers
Zoe McKnight, Vancouver Sun, December 14, 2012
First Nations leaders signed an indigenous legal declaration on Thursday, banning pipelines and oil tanker traffic in British Columbia in a further attempt to halt Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway project.
Opposition to Enbridge Grows as First Nations and Mayor of Vancouver Stand Together Against Threat of Oil Tankers and Pipelines
News Release, Yinka Dene Alliance, December 13, 2012
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson proclaims "Save the Fraser Declaration Day" recognizing need to protect rivers and coast from tar sands threat
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 13, 2012) - (Coast Salish Territories) - Opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and tanker project continued to gain momentum today as the Tahltan Central Council, the Tahltan Band Council and the BC Metis Federation signed the Save the Fraser Declaration, an indigenous law declaration banning tar sands pipelines and tankers from crossing British Columbia, signed by over 130 First Nations.
Alaska-bound rail project could solve Canada’s oil sands problems
Diane Francis, Financial Post, November 16 2012
A group of Canadian businessmen has obtained the blessing of Alaskan tribes and Canadian First Nations to build a railroad through their lands that could carry up to five million barrels per day from the oil sands to the super tanker port in Valdez, Alaska.
You heard it here: Northern Gateway’s dead
Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail, Oct. 05 2012
The Northern Gateway pipeline that Enbridge proposes to build from Alberta’s bitumen oil to the Pacific coast of British Columbia is, for all intents and purposes, dead.
Tankers too risky for B.C. coastal environment: independent engineering report
Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun, September 1 2012
The Enbridge Northern Gateway proposal to ship oilsands bitumen from Kitimat along the B.C. coast carries an unacceptable risk of a significant spill, according to an independent analysis by three professional engineers.
Pipeline pitch: Registry reveals Enbridge's heavy presence in halls of power
Dene Moore, The Canadian Press, Montreal Gazette, August 23, 2012
VANCOUVER - It has been said that there are no true friends in politics ... but there are plenty of them.
Northern Gateway review hobbled by budget cuts, critics say
The Canadian Press, CBC News, Aug 19, 2012
Fisheries department unable to do complete assessment
Oil and ink: Publisher’s bold refinery plan raises eyebrows
Andy Hoffman, Carrie Tait, Shawn Mccarthy & Ian Bailey, Globe and Mail, Aug. 17 2012
VANCOUVER, CALGARY, OTTAWA AND VANCOUVER — He has no backers, partners or investors.
Proposed Kitimat Refinery Trial Balloon Does Not Address Threats from Enbridge Pipeline and Tanker Project
News Release, West Coast Environmental Law, Coastal First Nations, Living Oceans Society, August 17, 2012
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - A refinery in Kitimat is the latest attempt to build support for the Northern Gateway pipeline that has been fiercely opposed by First Nations, communities, and people across BC. Kitimat Clean, a fledgling BC company whose website went live just this morning, has proposed a refinery that might possibly be built sometime in the future, but only if the Enbridge Northern gateway pipeline is approved now.
B.C. newspaper tycoon proposing $13-billion oil refinery for Northern Gateway oil
Gordon Hoekstra, Vancouver Sun, August 17 2012
VANCOUVER - B.C. community newspaper tycoon David Black proposed today building a $13-billion oil refinery near Kitimat to use all of the crude from Enbridge's controversial Northern Gateway pipeline.
Northern Gateway pipeline review panel demands consideration of 'Keystone Kops' report on Enbridge
Peter O'Neil, Calgary Herald, August 14, 2012
OTTAWA --- The federal review panel assessing the controversial Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline to B.C. is now demanding that Enbridge table a report from a U.S. regulator who concluded that the company acted like the Keystone Kops in a 2010 Michigan spill and had a corporate "culture of deviance."
PM unlikely to ram pipeline through
Barbara Yaffe, Vancouver Sun, August 14, 2012
Christy Clark and Adrian Dix both are talking tough on the subject of dashing the Northern Gateway oil pipeline, notably, without saying how they'd do it.
This, when the how of the matter surely is every bit as relevant as the what.
Scathing report on Enbridge's Michigan oil spill won't be reviewed by Northern Gateway panel
Peter O'Neil, Calgary Herald, August 14, 2012
Critics outraged at rules that limit use of U.S. report likening Calgary company to Keystone Kops
Tight deadline for Gateway review as political headwinds grow
Shawn McCarthy, Globe and Mail, Aug. 03 2012
Ottawa — The federal government has imposed a strict deadline on a review panel to conclude the work on Enbridge Inc.’s controversial Northern Gateway pipeline, even as it scrambles to rescue the $6-billion project from a political sinkhole.
